What basic services are you missing in the charm store?

[Richard Harding]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Jorge O. Castro wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm taking a quick informal survey. We have teams working on things
> like really complicated big data stacks[1] and container orchestration
> awesomeness[2].
>
> However I wanted to take a minute to ask people what basic, normal,
> boring services they feel are missing from the charm store. Things
> that we tend to forget because we're thinking of the complex problems.
> For example, Robie Basak pointed out to me that it'd be nice to have a
> "mail-in-the-box" style bundle that did a secure, simple mail server
> stack and that it'd be nice to have a promoted "just a blog" bundle
> that is more straightforward.
>
> Things of that sort.
>
> 1: https://jujucharms.com/u/bigdata-dev/realtime-syslog-analytics
> 2: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster/juju/bundles


With the recent discussion and focus on things for developers there's a
couple I think that would be cool

One that I think would be cool is sentry [1][2]. It's a great debugging tool
for python applications and if things like the django framework charm
supported it ootb it'd make an amazing one-two punch for developers. It can
also be used from ruby and other languages. newrelic [3] is another in this
category. I see a charm was created but not tried it out [4]

The other I think that would be great would be nginx [5]. I know personally
I've used it to replace apache, haproxy, and squid into a single service.
If that were able to work with SSL termination, static file caching, and
proxying scaled up applications behind it, that'd be great for a density
story, good development practices story, etc.

I sure wish we could package up travisci as that would be awesome to go
with folks code and run your own internally/etc.


1: https://getsentry.com/welcome/
2: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
3: http://newrelic.com/application-monitoring
4: https://jujucharms.com/newrelic/precise/3
5: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx

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Rick Harding

Juju UI Engineering
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